Miners get "Wait for signal"

[Maffin]

My miners get "Wait for signal" from time to time, even though they're set on repeat command to mine in an area and sell their stuff across 3 sectors.

Any idea why this occurs?

[Maffin]

Okay, just as I wrote, I caught an AI police vessel roaming around my miners and put them into "wait for signal" state.

This is really annoying. How to fix this?

[conrado.lacerda]

Most likely, they were stopped by police and are being scanned.

[Gibbo]

I think it's a police check?

[conrado.lacerda]

Originally posted by Maffin:

This is really annoying. How to fix this?

You can change your ships' default response to police interdiction, including to "ignore", but that may anger the cops...

[DaBa]

You don't fix anything because nothing is broken. The police is simply scanning their cargo from time to time, this is completely normal and you probably had it happen to you too on many occasions.

It's really nothing to worry about and it won't cause any noticeable disruptions to your operation. But if you want to completely avoid this for some reason then the only way would be to have your miners operate in a sector that does not have owner, or one you own yourself.

[DaBa]

Originally posted by conrado.lacerda:

Originally posted by Maffin:

This is really annoying. How to fix this?

You can change your ships' default response to police interdiction, including to "ignore", but that may anger the cops...

Yeah, telling them to ignore cops will only help piss them off and risk your miners getting blow up. And if you tell them to escape they will actually waste a ton of time running away and not doing what they were supposed to. Having your miners submit to a police scan from time to time and lose like 30 seconds is not a problem at all.

[Gibbo]

I don't think the miners even stop what they are doing while being scanned so it's just a visual indicator.

If you do have an ai ship that is scanned by police and they do have illegal wares on board (or on themselves) then they will tell you they are being scanned by the police and ask what to do. If you say they ignore they will probably kill the police lol as I've found out a couple of times. Tried a bit of smuggling. Didn't quite work out. Many, many dead. Nasty business.

[Azrelus]

Police scans cause ships to go "Wait for signal"

The tide in Avarice also causes ships outside the sector to go "Wait for signal"

[Maffin]

Well, if they just continue, then all is fine. It just looked to me, that they stopped mining. Some on traderoute even stopped and waited and when I checked the "wait for signal" it was set to 1 hours.